A year ago, we released The Pension Pac - Man: How
Pension Debt Eats Away at Teacher Salaries, which showed that, over the last 20 + years, teacher salaries have not kept up with inflation, but total teacher compensation has.
In our new report, «The Pension Pac - Man: How
Pension Debt Eats Away at Teacher Salaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the paper).
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Debt A Four Letter Word Why
Eat Cat Food In Retirement Being Bearish Is Not Profitable How does one of the top 10
pension funds diversify their assets?
Pension debt alone now
eats up to about 10 percent of the average teacher's compensation.
There is considerable and growing evidence that 1) at least half of teachers today will not qualify for even a minimum state
pension benefit; 2) state
pension funds now carry roughly $ 500 billion in
debt and are
eating up larger and larger shares of teacher compensation; 3) most teachers would have a more valuable retirement if they participated in a traditional 401k plan; and, 4) today's teachers, to their own financial detriment, subsidize the
pension of currently retired teachers.
Meanwhile,
pension debt snowballed and Chicago's taxpayers and teachers, as well as CPS, are now
eating the costs.
The state has $ 14 billion in
pension debt that
eats up a lot of the
pension contributions made on behalf of teachers.